"In just one day of attacks, we lost nearly two hundred fighter planes, sixty-three radar stations were severely damaged or destroyed, as well as seventeen airports and eight aircraft manufacturing plants..." Churchill rubbed his eyebrows.

, sighed: "The intensity of the German attack this time is completely different from the past. If we don't figure this out, we will be passive."

Hugh Dowding couldn't help but sigh, it's more than just passive?! It's even possible that when the Germans launch another attack, the entire UK will be paralyzed. Radar is now the eye that Britain relies on.

If the radar fails, everyone here can imagine what Britain will face.

"Colonel Holland, how is the patrol situation of your navy?!" After a moment of silence, Churchill asked Colonel Holland. The latter stood up and gave a military salute to Churchill and said.

"We cruised in the strait in the form of a fleet and launched a large number of reconnaissance aircraft. However, we did not find the German navy, so based on this judgment, the Germans probably did not dispatch aircraft carriers." After a pause, Colonel Holland continued.

Said: "In my opinion, it is very likely that the Germans modified their aircraft mailboxes to increase their flight range, which caused such a situation."

"Then how do you explain the radar?!" After listening to Colonel Holland's words, Hugh Dowding said thoughtfully: "Our radar didn't detect them until they were close. We had no trace of them at all before."

Colonel Holland said helplessly to Hugh Dowding: "General, I have no way to give an answer to this. After all, I am not a German. But judging from the available information, it was in 1935 when radar was first invented.

Someone in Germany has registered a patent for a more outstanding multi-cavity magnetron."

"In other words, it is entirely possible for the Germans to detect our radar. They may even detect the shortcomings of the radar, or improve the aircraft based on the blind spots of the radar." Colonel Holland shrugged and said, "Who is this?

What do you know?! I haven’t seen how powerful the German navy is, but the power of the German air force is obvious to all.”

"I don't think I need to tell everyone about the relationship between Goering and Hitler. So I am not surprised that he was able to find resources and technical personnel to crack the radar."

Colonel Holland's words were reluctantly accepted by Hugh Dowding. Hugh Dowding himself also doubted whether the Germans had aircraft carriers. Although as an air force general, he was not very familiar with the situation of the navy, he also knew about the training of the navy.

It's not something that happens overnight at all.

And aircraft carrier take-off and landing operations cannot be trained in a short time. It requires a lot of time, energy and resources.

"The exposure of our radar station also illustrates some problems." Colonel Holland saw Hugh Dowding and continued without saying anything: "The radar stations and airports were exposed in large areas. This shows that there are a large number of Germans in our British Empire.

intelligence personnel. They can easily detect the location of our airports and radar stations."

"So, from this point of view, it is very possible that they have figured out the secret of the radar."

Colonel Holland's words made the atmosphere in the entire conference room freeze! If this is really the case, then a comprehensive internal cleanup is inevitable.

Especially those who inquire about radars and may have access to radar secrets. Let's see who among these people may be colluding with the Germans.

This German attack unexpectedly resulted in Britain's own purge. Indeed, through some channels, Germany found out about British airports, aircraft manufacturing plants, and radar stations.

But we don't have the ability to find out the details of radar. After all, airports, aircraft manufacturing plants and radar stations. These are fixed locations, and you can always find them as long as you investigate carefully.

But the secrets of radar are different. The staff at those radar stations know how to operate but may not understand the principles. And they may not be able to explain the secrets in the radar.

Besides, the British are not fools and would not allow these people to contact others at will. Therefore, the British cabinet now concludes that there is an insider.

But the actual situation is...

"Lütjens, you have completed your mission very well this time! This is of great help to Germany's strategic layout!" Hitler received Lütjens in his headquarters, which undoubtedly helped Lütjens.

It is a very high courtesy.

As Hitler's status improved with continuous victories, fewer and fewer people were able to receive him in person. More often, he only appeared in public places or meetings.

Except for high-level Nazis and some close figures, almost no one could get an audience with Hitler.

"Führer! This is the responsibility of our German Navy!" Lütjens stood at attention and performed as a soldier. This made Hitler very satisfied.

Hitler, who had a military background, attached great importance to the appearance and attitude of a soldier, and Lütjens obviously met his standards very well.

"Lütjens, I am very encouraged by your victory this time. Next, I will go to the Air Force with you to select the pilots for the new 'B Ship'. The new 'B Ship' will be assigned to you."

The First Aviation Fleet! You will form the strongest combat effectiveness of our German Navy!"

As Hitler spoke, he couldn't help waving his hands again. This had become his habit, and he used gestures to constantly strengthen his tone and emotions in his speeches.

"Yes! My head of state! We will be the strongest combat force in the navy, and we will use our strength to tell those British guys! The German navy is also stronger than them!"

"Yes! This is our Germany! As a German soldier, you should be so proud, Lütjens! I am very satisfied! Look, this is what I prepared for you! Hahaha..."

Hitler said, taking out a pair of epaulettes. Lütjens couldn't help but get excited. This was a pair of epaulettes for an admiral. Simply put, Hitler now planned to promote him to the rank of admiral.

"Hi! Hitler!!" As a soldier, how could Lütjens not be excited? He was about to become a general.

Hitler smiled and put on the epaulettes for Lütjens with his own hands, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Come on, come on... let's take a look together. What should we do next."

With that said, Hitler pulled Lütjens to the edge of the map and said angrily: "Goering and his air force failed in England, which resulted in the stagnation of our Sea Lion plan. The staff told me that if the Sea Lion was forcibly launched,

Otherwise, our losses will be immeasurable."

"Fortunately, the Japanese actions gave me new ideas, and your execution also proved that Germany is fully capable of executing this tactic." Hitler waved his hands again, extremely excited.

"Come on! Lütjens! Let us tell those damn Brits together! Don't think that the English Channel can stop our German steps! Let us completely send these damn Brits into the sea! "

"Hi! Hitler!" Lütjens shouted.

Shen Honglie, the commander of the navy who is also in the navy and is far away in China, is not happy at all. He is currently standing in Shanghai Port and yelling. He is cursing that no one dares to persuade him in the dark.

"Prodigal son! Prodigal son! What a good aircraft carrier, why can't these bastards hit it accurately?! Why do they have to blow up the keel? Such a damn prodigal nature!!"

Shen Honglie's anger stemmed from the aircraft carrier being salvaged. The Kaga aircraft carrier was finally pulled out of the water with force. But upon inspection, Shen Honglie was dumbfounded.

The keel of the Kaga aircraft carrier was blown open and the damage was serious. Navy engineers gathered together and looked at it for a long time and concluded: This thing cannot be repaired.

The most important thing about a warship is the keel. How to repair the keel if it is damaged?! The worst thing is that the boiler of the Kaga aircraft carrier was also blown out. The internal situation is in a mess. It is so messy that people don’t know how to repair it! .

"Commander, this air force is not under our control! It's useless to scold you..." Chief of Naval Staff Chen Shaokuan carefully comforted: "And this is just one ship. Even if we can't use it, we can still refer to training. no?!"

"Besides, didn't the United States say that it would send technicians to help us repair the warships?! Even if they can't go into battle, they are still good as training ships..."

Chen Shaokuan was originally Lieutenant General and Minister of the Navy of the Nanjing National Government. Later, he firmly sided with Lin Sen when forming the coalition government. Subsequently, the Lieutenant General became the Chief of General Staff of the Navy.

In terms of age and qualifications, Chen Shaokuan is a bit behind Shen Honglie. What Lin Sen or Tu Mengbi revealed to Chen Shaokuan was that Shen Honglie is getting older now.

He will eventually retire in the future, but after retirement, the National Defense Force and Navy need someone who can support the situation. And he, Chen Shaokuan, is this candidate.

Therefore, the National Defense Force now places him in the position of chief of general staff in the hope that he can train more. Tu Mengben even hinted that Chen Shaokuan would be the commander of the newly formed First Air Fleet of the National Defense Force Navy.

The purpose is to familiarize him with aircraft carrier operations so that he can take over Shen Honglie's position in the future.

"Hofu, I'm just complaining. These air force brats don't know how expensive firewood and rice are when they don't know how to be rich!" Shen Honglie looked at the bombed-out Kaga and said sadly: "Tell me, tell me, It would be great if this aircraft carrier was given to us..."

Shen Honglie is older than Chen Shaokuan in terms of seniority and age, so he always uses words when addressing Chen Shaokuan. Chen Shaokuan, on the other hand, will call Shen Honglie "commander" in the workplace. But in private, the two of them are more casual. , Shen Honglie also admired Chen Shaokuan very much.

After all, Chen Shaokuan participated in the Battle of Groling in World War I, and was considered one of the few military personnel in the navy who had experienced European naval warfare.

As the commander of the navy, Shen Honglie naturally knew that Chen Shaokuan would be the person to take over his position in the future. For the development of the navy, he was also trying his best to train Chen Shaokuan.

It was only with Shen Honglie's strong support that the coalition government cabinet agreed to appoint Chen Shaokuan to serve as the Navy's newly established First Air Fleet. Shen Honglie's purpose was also to train Chen Shaokuan's ability to control aircraft carrier operations.

"Hofu! How many more years can this old guy like me stay in this position of commander?! The navy still has to rely on young people like you to support it!" Shen Honglie looked at the battleship that was gradually being dragged out of the water. He sighed: "The future naval battle will undoubtedly be a battle in which the aircraft carrier is king. It is what you must do to become familiar with the aircraft carrier as soon as possible and understand the key."

"With more aircraft carriers, we can also have more commanders and fighters familiar with aircraft carrier operations. This is very important to our navy..."

Chen Shaokuan nodded and gave a military salute to the old man's back. Shen Honglie was passionate about the navy. Without this passion, he would not have been lobbying and encouraging Zhang Zuolin to build a navy in his early years.

When he saw the hope of the navy rising little by little, the navy commander was excited. This made him happier than his personal achievements.

While he was happy, he was also carefully observing the changes in naval combat patterns. Japan's battle against Pearl Harbor highlighted the importance of air power in naval warfare.

The era of cannons and giant ships has quietly passed away, and the new era is the era of air support for naval operations. This has been proven by the National Defense Forces in the Yellow Sea and also in Shanghai.

But these are all achievements made by the Air Force. As for the Navy, it lost almost all its combat effectiveness in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Shen Honglie, a veteran navy, had to watch his captains go to the United States to study and participate in combat.

There is no way, the navy of the National Defense Force is too weak. It is even completely out of proportion to its opponent, the Japanese Navy. The Japanese Navy may only need to touch an aviation fleet to completely defeat the navy of the National Defense Force.

Among them, the role of aircraft carriers is huge. Shen Honglie urgently hopes to obtain an aircraft carrier to train the navy's aircraft carrier combat capabilities.

In fact, why didn’t Chen Shaokuan not want to get an aircraft carrier?! As early as 1928, Chen Shaokuan, then commander of the Second Fleet of the Nationalist Government’s Navy, wrote to the Nanjing government asking for 20 million yuan to be spent on building China’s first aircraft carrier!

But Jiang Gong did not have this idea. In his opinion, the navy should be ranked behind. The priority to build is the army. And the construction of the army is stumbling. Where can you find the money to build the navy?!

So what Chen Shaokuan got was just one word: Wait. Of course, he would not say that on the surface. But Chen Shaokuan is not an idiot. He has heard a lot of those words of Don Juan since the Beiyang period. How can he Can’t tell the difference?!

Perhaps out of anger, or perhaps because he knew that he would never see the rise of the navy in this life. In short, from then on, Chen Shaokuan began to dream of his dream of a powerful navy on paper:

In a bunch of naval construction plans, four war zones are divided from Liaodong to the China-Vietnam border in the South China Sea. 20 aircraft carriers will be built, with each aircraft carrier costing about 1.8 billion yuan.

Then, the guilty Chen Shaokuan was considered impractical by Jiang Gong and was ready to be decentralized for retirement. If it hadn't happened to be the Anti-Japanese War, perhaps Chen Shaokuan would have been able to grow flowers and grass in his hometown in Fujian.

"Hou Fu, I will retire in two years." Suddenly, Shen Honglie looked extremely lonely. He turned to Chen Shaokuan and said: "At that time, the navy will still need you to support it. I will do it now. I hope... our aircraft carrier can really fight a war before I retire! Let us use the navy to wash away the shame of leaving us in Dadonggou!"

Chen Shaokuan nodded fiercely and solemnly performed a military salute to Shen Honglie.

The navy is very friendly here, but there is silence in the general headquarters of the Wehrmacht. After all, the German royal family has its own huge influence among the Junkers. How the German navy gained the advantage of England was easily obtained by them.

Due to uncertainty about the situation, these matters were sent to China by a telegram. The recipient of the telegram was Her Royal Highness Princess Federica. The telegram looked like an ordinary royal greeting telegram.

But if you take the content apart and arrange it in the order of certain letters in an ancient Chinese book that Federica often reads, you will know that this is not an ordinary family greeting telegram at all.

This is a special encrypted telegram.

"The Germans used aircraft carriers so quickly and achieved such good results! I can't believe it, I can't believe it!" Lin Sen sighed while holding the telegram, thinking of his own navy.

Now the Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Force and Navy Shen Honglie is still busy salvaging the sunk Japanese aircraft carrier, but the Germans have begun to use the aircraft carrier in combat.

Ordinarily, this is also the first time that Germany has used aircraft carriers in combat. But it seems to have been very effective, and until now, the British do not seem to have noticed that the Germans used aircraft carriers.

"The Germans' industrial accumulation over the years is not unfounded. I am not surprised that they can prove that they can quickly build an aircraft carrier and even use it in actual combat." In contrast, Yan Zhengqing is much simpler.

He had been to Germany very early and had seen Germany's complete industrial base. Moreover, Germany had experience in building warships before World War I, although the navy was restricted after World War I.
To be continued...